16682 CONGRESSIO~AL RECORD-SENATE DECEMBER 18 Mr. DOUGHTON: Committee on Ways and tain property to be maintained by such city THE JOURNAL . Means. House Joint Resolution 553. Joint as an air-raid shelter during emergencies resolution amending chapter 26 of the In with the need therefor, and for other public On the request of Mr. LucAs, and by ternal Revenue Code; without amendment and municipal purposes at all other times; unanimous consent, the reading of the (Rept. No. 3199). Referred to the Commit.. to the Committee on Public Works. Journal of the proceedings of Friday, tee of the Whole House on the State· of the By Mr. LARCADE: December 15, 1950, was dispensed with. Union. H. J. Res. 552. Joint resoluti'on to amend MESSAGES FROM THE .PRESIDENT Mr. DOUGHTON: Committee on Ways and section 402 of the Defense Production Act Means. House Joint Resolution 554. Joint so as to require that if price or wage con Messages in writing from the Presi resolution amending section 3804 of the In trols are exercised under that section, they dent of the United States submitting ternal Revenue Code; without amendment be exercised for prices and wages generally (Rept. No. 3200). Referred to the Commit- nominations were communicated to the and ceilings be set at the leve1s prevailing Senate by Mr. Miller, one of his secre- -tee of the Whole House on the State of the from May 24, 1950, to June 24, 1950; to the Union. · Committee. on Banking and Currency. taries. · Mr. CURTIS: Committee on Ways and By Mr. DOUGHTON: MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE Means. H. R. 9913. A bill to prevent pen H.J. Res. 553. Joint resolution amending A message from the House of Repre alties and additions to tax in case of failure chapter 26 of the Internal Revenue Code; to to meet requirements with respect to esti the Committee on Ways and Means. sentatives, by Mr. Maurer, one of its mated tax by reason of increases imposed reading clerks, announced that the by the Revenue Act of 1950; with amend H. j_ Res. 554. Joint resolution amending section 3804 of the Internal Revenue Code; House had agreed to the amendment of ment (Rept. No. 3201). Referred to the the Senate to the bill ARREST OF . WITNESSES WHOSE TESTI 30, 1951: and for other purposes; to the Com UN Delegates,'' written ' by Edward Tomlin MONY IS REQUIRED BY SPECIAL COM mittee on Appropriations. son, and published in the Washington Sun MITTEE TO INVESTIGATE INTERSTATE H. R. 9802. An act to grant succession to day Star of December 17, 1950, which appears CRIME-REPORT OF A COMMITTEE- the War Damage Corporation; to the Com• in the Appendix.] mittee on Banking and Currency. MINORITY VIEWS H. R. 8344. An act to amend section 313 THE ST. LAWRENCE SEAWAY-EDITORIAL Mr. McCARRAN. Mr. President, from (b) of the Tariff Act of 1930; · FROM THE SUBURBAN LIST the Committee on the Judiciary, I • H. R. 9794. An act to amend section 22 (d) [Mr. AIKEN asked and obtained leave t'o report the resolution , -------. ... -~.______16686 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE DECEMBER 18 "$12,500"; amendment numbered 2, restore a decade, while the United States was not yet duty in Germany and Japan, antiaircraft the language "personal injuries and"; .and at war, a national emergency was proclaimed. defense of the United States, assignments the Senate agree to the same. Once again the most powerful Nation on to schools. On K-day there were. only four HARLEY M. Kn.GORE, earth is to mobilize, to build a mighty armed divisions in the United States that could WARREN G. MAGNUSON, force, to serve as the arsenal for its allies. be sent out of the country. ALEXANDER WILEY, The challenge for the United States last The Armed Forces now are believed to Mancgers on the Part of the Senate. week was undiminished. In Korea the total around 2,300,000 (the exact figures are WILLIAM T. BYRNE, massed forces of Communist China struck' secret). National Guard units and Reserv WINFIELD K. DENTON, savagely in an effort to complete the defeat ists of all three service branches have been KENNETH B. KEATING, of American troops fighting under the United called up. For the Army, 210,000 men will Managers on the Part of the House. ·Nations banner. have been drafted by the end of this month. / In Europe, the western countries are Still the shortage of military manpower is The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there ob virtually defenseless in the face of over extremely acute. jection to the present consideration of whelming Russian might. This week the top The defense budget has expanded much the report? d-iplomatic official of the United States, Sec more rapidly. At K-day it was about $13, Mr. WHERRY. Reserving the right to retary of State Dean Acheson, is to meet in r.oo,ooo ,ooo. Congress has rapidly expanded object, I should like to ask a question. Brussels with the Foreign Ministers of the the figure. A bill being rushed through Does the conference language reduce the other Atlantic Pact countries. The mission Congress will put the total close to $42,- is to launcll a real rearmament of the 000,000,000. amount involved? Continent. On Friday night Mr. Truman said: Mr. KILGORE. No; tne conference In a radio address to the Nation on Friday "We are expanding our Armed Forces very language increases the amount allowed night, the President spelled out the challenge rapidly. • • • Our next step is to in by the Senate. The conferees were con to the United States and its allies in the crease the number of men and women on vinced, after conferring with the House, strongest terms. Mr. Truman said: active duty to nearly three and a half that the House amount as originally al "Danger has been created by the rulers of million. • • • At the same time we will lowed was correct, and the conferees the Soviet Union. .. • • The forces of have a very rapid speed-up in the produc Communist imperialism burst out into open tion of military equipment." agreed to go along with it. warfar in Korea. [The Communists] have The President's words lMt much room for The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there ob shown that they are now willing to push speculation about the Government's precise jection to the present consideration of the world to the brink of a general war to military objectives. According to informed the conference report? get what they want. This is the real mean observers, the picture is something like this: There being no objection, the report ing of the events that have been taking place As to manpower, the figure of 3,500,000 was considered and agreed to. in Korea. That is why we are in such grave used by Mr. Truman indicates an expansion danger." of about 1,200,000. AbOut 21,000 of these A PLEA FOR NATIONAL UNITY will be in 2 National Guard divisions which~ UNITED STATES ACTS-A STATE OF EMERGENCY 1t was announced, will be called up in Mr. McKELLAR. Mr. President, I ask The last time a national emergency was January. ·The only · clues he gave on how unanimous consent that I may speak for proclaimed in the United States was in May long the total expansion would take were 4 minutes on a matter which I believe 1941. The British, with their dominions, that the Army and Navy build-up would take will be of considerable interest to all were _fighting alone against the dictators; a few months while the Air Force would take Members of the Senate. the Germans were in process of driving them somewhat longer. Earlier in the week th& The VICE PRESIDENT. Without ob- t~ a "little Dunquerque" from Crete. On Army gave another clue by asking Selective jection, the Senator from Tennessee is the 27th-the day the Royal Navy gave Service for 160,000 men in January and Feb recognized for 4 minutes. Britain something to cheer about by sinking ruary instead of the 90,000 previously Mr. McKELLAR. I ask that Senators the battleship Bismarck-President Franklin scheduled. D. Roosevelt said in a fireside chat: be seated, to listen to what I have to "We will not accept a Hitler-dominated New rules for draft? say; and I thank them heartily for world. · • • • I have tonight issued a proc Moreover, new draft targets are thought doing so. lamation that an unlimited national emer- likely to require changes in the draft law and regulations. Theoretically the law pro• Mr. President, for many years the New gency exists." vides a draft reservoir of about 8,500,000 men York Times has printed in its Sunday The proclamation put America.'s mobiliza between ages 19 and 26. But many of these edition a section entitled "The News of tion into second speed; half a year later, are unfit. The 1aw exempts veterans and the Week.in Review." buy that news- with Pearl Harbor, it was to shift into high. gLves deferments to certain students. The 1 In the pe~k years the Nation was to devote paper every Sunday, primarily in order to war as much as $90,000.000,000--nearly regulations are generous in granting defer· to read that section. Whoever prepares palf of the National product then-and two ments for married men, fathers, and essen• it has a master mind. In my opinion, thirds of its industrial capacity. As many tial workers. as 400,000 young men a month were drafted As a result only about 1,000,000 are con. yesterday's section was the best revfew sidered draftable. An additional 500,000 men ever published by that newspaper. I into the Armed Forces until they totaled come into draft age each year. But the feel doubt that it could be improved upon. I more than 13,000,000. ing is that too little leeway is left for further know that I could not improve upon it. Last Friday night, with America once again the main hope of the free world, expansion, 1f needed. Accordingly the ad It should be read by every Senator and President Harry s. Truman said: ministration may tighten up on deferments by every Meniber of the House of Rep- "We cannot yield to aggression. • • • I and ask Congress to amend the law-by, for resentatives. It is most regrettable that will issue a proclamation tomorrow morning example, broadening the age limits, extend in this time of trouble and distress it declaring that a national emergency exists." ing the length of service from 21 to 24 cannot be read by every American cit- Mr. Truman's procla.mation served notice months, and cutting down on exemptions. . izen. It describes the far eastern sit- that it was time for the mobilizi;ttion against As to military expenditure, the budget is uation, the European troubles, the Rus- the Communist threat to move into second expected to rise further-perhaps to $50,- speed. The question of whether or when 000,000,000--before the fiscal year. ends next sian aggression, and does so succinctly, the time will arrive for a high-speed mo- June 30. Where it will go from there Mr. concisely, and accurately, just as I be- bilization is, of course, the question of a Truman did not say. As one indication, how lieve those situations to be. big war. ever, he said that "within .1 year" from now At this point in my remarks, Mr. Pres- The President acted at the end of a week plane production will quintuple and com ident, I ask unanimous consent to have 1n which the sense of urgency in the Capital bat-vehicle production will quadruple. printed in the RECORD as a part of my re- rose rapidly. At the beginning of the week Mr. Truman stressed that the mobilization he held important meetings with Democratic was to rearm not only the Unites States but marks, all of the front page of section 4 congressional leaders and with his civilian also the western Allies. Yesterday the State of yesterday's edition of the New York advisers on mobilization. On Wednesday Department showed that the field of Amer Times and the first column and one-half and Thursday he and his highest councilors ican concern is still broader by proposing a of page 2-E of that section. conferred in extraordina.ry sessions with special conference of the foreign ministers There being no objection, the matter { congressional chieftans of both parties. of 21 American Republics. referred to was ordered to be printed in There appeared to be broad agreement that ON THE ECONOMIC FRONT . . 1n the light of Korea and its implications the RECORD, as follows· the Nation must take drastic action-action Two world wars and the threat of a third THE NFWS OF THE WEEK IN REVIEW AS in military mobilization and in economic have given the President a wide range of PRESIDENT TRUMAN ACTS To MEET THE mobilization . . extraordinary powers. Notably there is the CHALLENGE OF COMMUNISM Second War Powers Act of 1917, amended in ON THE MILITARY "ONT 1942. It still holds since World War II still MOBILIZATION TO MEET 'r:::-IE CHALLENGE At the outbreak of the Korean war the 1s on officially. Under this and other laws The United States moved last week to meet United States Armed Forces totaled about the President has controls over shipping, fully the challenge of international com 1,450,000 men. Many of these were tied communications, radio stations, and oth·er munism. Yesterday, for the second time in down in various assignments-occupation fields. There also is the Defense Production 1950 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 16687 Act of 1950, enacted last September because Ceilings-and autos It may be that the UN commander will of the Korean war. Under it the President As to controls, Mr. Truman said there decide to set up beachheads based upon has powers to control inflation and make would be moves at once to control prices of Pusan in the south and Inchon in the sure defense production gets done. a number of materials and products. Wage west. Ringed with dug-in tanks and heavy Up to now Mr. Truman has followed a go controls will go along with the price controls. artillery, covered by the. big guns of the slow policy in using his powers. They have In addition, Mr. Truman said he would put fieet and protected by air power, these been· delegated widely throughout the ad before Congress still further taxes in order to beachheads could be held for some time, ministration. help prevent inflation ·and put defense "as and could be reduced only at tremendous The general overseer, as Coordinator of nearly as possible on a pay-as-you-go basis." cost. Furthermore, both Inchon ftnd Pu Mobilization, has been W. Stuart Symington, Last night the Economic Stabilization san-especially the latter-provide good fa Chairman of t he National Security Resources Agency issued the ·first price-ceiling order in cilities for evacuation if a final withdrawal Board. There is a new Economic Stabiliza the new program-and the first since OPA. becomes necessary. tion Agency under Alan Valentine, in charge It rolled auto prices back to the levels of The major fighting last week took place of price and wage controls; it has scarcely December 1-before the recent increases. in the northeast. A week ago today Task functioned. In the Commerce Department They will hold there until March 1, pending Force Dog from the United States Third Divi there has been a National Production Au a thorough study of auto prices. Meanwhile sion crashed through a Chinese roadblock thority under William H. Harrison; among ESA will study auto-wage stabilization. deep in a gorge along the road between other things it has fixed quotas on the non More price ceilings in other lines are expected Hungnam and Hagaru, and linked up with military use of critical materials. to come. the Marines and GI's that had fought their The Federal Reserve Board has restricted Thus America is to live again, in some way out of the trap around the Changjin bank, consumer, and real-estate credit. The measure, the still-fresh memorie ; of a mobi Reservoir . . Men of tbe rescuing task force Labor Department has been dealing with lized economy-the shortages, the · substi cut left and right of the road and held off manpower; Agriculture, food and farm ma-· tutes, the regulations, the longer working 4 Chinese divisions coming in for the kill. chinery; Interior, fuels and power; the In hours and, above all, the young men going Puerto Rican soldiers manned the heights terstate Commerce Commission, transporta away. along the canyon. The trucks carrying the tion. Collaterally, Congress has enacted The President's proclamation yesterday Marine::; and GI's swept through. Last Mon higher income taxes for individuals and cor served not only a legal purpose (it will add day night all the trapped force-between . porations, and an additional tax on corpo a few to his many powers) but also· the 20,000 and 25,000 men-was safe within the rate excess profits is in the works. psychological purpose of driving home to the Hungnam beachead. The next morning Voluntary controls tried people the need for the sacrifices ahead. For their rescuers joined them. In this set-up two of the President's most its part the Nation seemed united in its Evacuation begins drastic powers have been held in abeyance. response to his call : There was little time to lose. Three strong The Defense Production Act permits him to "I summon all citizens to make a united Chinese columns were surging down upon the impose price and wage ceilings-either gen effort for the security and well-being of our beachhead-one along the coast, one behind erally or in selected industries, so long as beloved country." the marines from Changjin Reservoir, a third wage controls accompany price controls. NO QUARTER ON KOREAN BATTLEFIELDS between them. Last Wednesday the booms The administration has shied away from In Korea the United Nations army is split started swinging the tanks and trucks from them on the ground that voluntary re into two segments separated by 200 miles. the piers onto the waiting Victory and Lib straints should be given a chance to work. Except where UN troops are in firm contact erty ships; soldiers moved up the gangways. ' In recent weeks the pressure for rigid con with the enemy, the t actical situation is ob Landing craft and launches ·put off from trols h as rapidly gathered force. Much of scure. It is hidden in a security silence the fleet moored in the roadsteact-the bat organized labor has won wage increases; which Tokyo headquarters imposed on tleship Miosouri, several cruisers, five flat these often have been followed by price in Thursday to cloak troop movements. But tops, a large number of destroyers, and creases. There have been fears that the the strategical picture is clear. auxiliary craft-to pick up more men. As wage-price spiral might get out of hand. In the south, somewhere along the thirty the men were evacuated the outposts began The critical turn in world events, and the · eighth parallel, units of Lt. Gen. Walton pulling in. prospect of a far more strenuous American H. Walker's Eighth Army are deployed in A few hours before dawn on Friday morn mobilization, have brought a general convic strong points commanding the roads. This ing came the dread beating of drums and tion that, stricter controls are in order. If a staggered defense line stretches from the blowing of bugles that herald a Chinese at clincher were needed, it came last Wednes west coast to the central mountain range. tack. An enemy force of 2,500, including day when General Motors, Ford, and eight Defenses have also been mounted around Mongolians on ponies, hit the defense line other auto firms, asked by Mr. Valentine to the Inchon-Seoul area. Between the paral west of Hungnam. The Chinese objective Withhold price increases on their cars volun lel and Pyongyang, the capital of North Ko was the Hungnam airfield. There was bloody tarily, said flatly "No"-higher labor and rea, the Chinese commander, Lin Piao, is hand-to-hand fighting. Two United States materials costs made price hikes necessary. massing at least 150,000 men for an attack platoons-about 100 men-we:re cut off; one On Friday night Mr. Truman said: down the center of the peninsula which is of them was feared lost. Reinforcements "We can h andle this production program, designed to outflank and encircle the UN were rushed in and the Communists were but it will require hard work. It will require defenses. thrown back. One thousand Chinese lay us to make a lot of changes in our ordinary In the northeast Maj. Gen. Edward M. Al· dead in front of the UN line. ways of doing things. • • • [It] will in mond's Tenth Corps holds a narrow beach But all day Friday the pressure continued. evitably push up prices, unless we take posi head-its radius is less than 6 miles-around On Saturday morning UN troops pulled out tive action to hold them down." the port of Hungnam. Transports are tied of the large industrial city of Hamhung, 6 In his speech the President spelled out the up at the piers. Off shore stands the Seventh specific steps-and yesterday he began the miles northwest of Hungnam, as engineers Fleet. Overhead, Marine and naval fighters blew the bridges and drove engines and rail process of putting them into action. These are flying cover. Posted around the perime way cars lnto the chasm. are the steps: ter is a United States infantry division, fight As to organization, Mr. Truman brought The Third Division, manning the peri ing off probing attacks and determined to meter, is confident it can hold until the the entire economic mobilization under the hold the line against an assault by 100,000 central control of a new Office of Defense· evacuation is completed. Then the last rear Chinese troops which is expected at any guards will make a dash for the nearby air Mobilization. It will have charge of pro minute. The Tenth Corps is being evacuated. duction, procurement, manpower, transpor strip and board the waiting planes. The The evacuation has been going ozt all week. Tenth Corps will have been saved. tation, and economic stabilization. Its How m any of the carp's 60,000 men are still head, formally appointed yesterday, is in the beachhead is not known. NO COMPROMISE IN UN DIPLOMACY Charles Edward Wilson, 64, president of UN plans secret The first Chinese Communist mission to General Electric for 11 years who was Vice the United Nations-a group of seven men · Chairman of the War Production Board in What are the future plans of the United and two women headed by General Wu Hsiu World War IL (He is not to be confused Nat ions high command? These, also, are a wit h Charles Erwin Wilson, president of closely guarded secret. But one thing is chuan-arrived at Lake Success 23 days ago. (}eneral Motors, who calls himself "Engine clear. The Chinese Communists now have Officially the Chinese came to discuss their Charley" and his namesake "Electric more than 300,000 men in Korea. In addi charge that the United States' action in Charley." ) tion, there are nearly 100,000 North Korean throwing a naval blockade around Formosa Mr. Wilson will be free to decide whe1'her troops, already operating in guerrilla bands constituted armed aggression against the Uhi to run the mobilization through scattered or in ·reorganized units behind the front. nese Peoples Republic. But far more than agen cies as now .or to merge them into a Against this Communist mass, General Mac that, General Wu used the UN forum to re single agency. He will thus be a czar to a Arthur has 275,000 men. peat Russia's bitter denunciations of the degree no man was in World War II. The If Mao's commander in Korea, Lin Piao, United States and the western democracies closest approximation in that war was James throws the full weight of his divisions across ·and to present far-reaching demands. He F. Byrnes, who as head of the Office of War the thirty-eighth .parallel, it . will probably said, in effect; Get out of Korea. Get out of Mobilization and Reconversion was called be impossible for the United Nati~ns to hold Formosa. Give us China's seat at the UN. assist ant president, but acted m ainly as an a defense line across the whole width of the • In private talks wit h perhaps a dozen umpire of int eragency disputes. peninsula at the parallel. delegates, talks initiated in an effort to end 16688. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE DECEMBER 18 the intervention of Communist China-Gen member were attacked all woUld come to the question. The project is for a. European eral Wu has been equally tough. All pro victims defense. Actually, the five countries army in addition to the regular armies of posals made t'J him have met the same re had little in the way of military power to put tho pact nations. The European army would sponse: He nodded and agreed to transmit into the field. have divisions made , up of three combat them to his goyernment. In Brussels, tomorrow and Tuesday, there teams each--one team French, another Ger Wu to the press will take place a meeting of tlle members of man, the third other European nationals. a. greatly expanded western alliance-the · Because of the harmony reported from Yesterday, for the first time, General Wu Atlantic pact. The foreign ministers of called a press conference. He called it in London last Wednesday, there were many these countries will attend: the United statements to the effect that the German re order to announce Peiping's answer to a States, Canada, the five Brussels pact coun cease-fire proposal the UN General Assem-. armament question was at last settled.· That tries, Italy, Portugal, Norway, Denmark, Ice may be true as far as the United States and bly had approved. General Wu, in effect, land.· The harsh fact is that, while the all1- rejected the cease fire. Later it was dis F'rance and the other pact nations are con ance has grown in numbers, the western cerned, but it is far from true as far as closed that General Wu and his delegation powers have not got the armies to put up a plan to leave Lake Success this week. Western Germany ls concerned. The United serious defense of Western Europe. Russia's States and its A111es have a big selling job The press conference came after a week devisions, vastly outnumbering the West, of United Nations attempts to end the Ko ahead of them, for the West Germans do not could sweep quickly to the Atlantic and the like the compromise plan at all. rean war. These , attempts turned on what English Channel. kind of truce might be acceptable to both What the pact members hope to accom Mood of Germans sides. The Chinese Communists had de plish at the Brussels Conference meetings, This is the West Germans' attitude: They manded what would amount to a "condi and at supplementary meetings, is to bring fear a war in which the decisive battles very tional cease-fire." Their price was a definite about a .real rearmament of the West-in likely would be fought on German soil. They commitment that the United States would cluding Western Germany. The idea is to feel that a defense force under the compro allow Peiping to take Formosa. The United p:rovide a deterrent to a march of the Red mise would be too weak. Many Germans States wanted an unconditional cease-fire. Army. While the West could never build up are saying that they would rather be bol The United States position was that, once enough armed strength to stop the Russians shevized than fight a war they could not win. the Korean war was ended, we would dis dead in event of war, it could build up a That is the line of the Socialist Party in cuss Formosa in the United Nations-but we powerful force-powerful enough to show the West Germany. But the Socialists would be would not negotiate at the point of a gun. Russians that an invasion of Western Europe willing to rearm-if rearmament were . not On Monday, at Lake Success, a group of would be a. very costly affair. Thus, the hobbled by the conditions of the Allied plan. Asian and Mideastern delegates led by In theory goes, western rearmament may hold They want German divisions-in effect, a dia's Sir Benegal Rau drafted a package plan off the Russians. new German Army-and the commitment of of two resolutions which they hoped would Foreign ministers prepare very powerful American forces as proof that constitute a framework for reconciliation of the west seriously intends to defend Ger.. the Chinese and American views. Resolu Last week the pact foreign ministers made many. They want that--or no rearmament tion No. 1 proposed a three-man commit careful preparations for the Brussels con at all. tee, including Assembly President Nasrollah ference. In Washington Secretary of State In recent state elections in West Ger Entezam of Iran, to "determine the basis on Dean Acheson, despite the demands of the many, the Socialists, campaigning on their which a satisfactory cease-fire in Korea can Korean crisis, spent much time on the Eu rearmament positions, made heavy gains at be arranged." Resolution No. 2 called for ap ropean defense problem. Experts briefed the expense of the Christian Democrr-ts, th~ pointment of a committee including the him. He read papers-some by John Mc party of Konrad Adenauer, Chancelor of West United States and possibly Communist Cloy, United States High Commissioner in Germany. Last Tuesday the Adenauer gov China to draft plans for a general Far East Germany--on the German troop question. ernment took the Socialist position. A gov.. ern settlement-including Formosa's future He held long consultations on the question er:'lment spokesman said the Atlantic Pact status. of Soviet intentions in Europe. Mr. Acheson compromise plan was unacceptable; that leaves today by plane. Only the first resolution came up for de Germ~ns would go along with rearmamen1l bate last week and only the Russian bloc Mr. Acheson and his colleagues Will have only on the basis of full equality with the opposed it. Russia's Jacob Malik called it before the:rp., for final approval, agreements pact powers. Full equality would mean an "Anglo-American device" designed to give alreaQ.y worked out by their lieutenants on not only German divisions, but, for all prac the United States time to regain strength three major aspects of western defense. tical i;urposes, complete sovereignty for West for further aggression. His opposition First, there is the general plan for a co Germany• • seemed to indicate that Moscow was pushing ordinated Atlantic defense force made up of China to continue the war. the national armies of pact countries. The Russian question Entezam, Rau, Pearson Second, there is the plan for a supreme At the Brussels Conference the pact min commander of the :All1ed Atlantic force. The isters will discuss the question of what to On Thursday the Assembly approved the do about the German attitude toward re resolution, 52 to 5. President Entezam then Ministers are expected to call on the United States to provide that commander. It is a armament-and the Russian attitude. The named the two other members of the cease Russians are engaged in an intense campaign fire committee-Sir Benegal and Lester Pear foregone conclusion that he will be Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. · to head off the rearmament of West Ger son of Canada. On Friday they started many. Last October the Kremlin (which sounding out the Americans and the Chinese Third, there is the plan-a most controver has allowed partial rearmament of East Ger. Communists. On Friday evening General sial plan-for bringing Germans into the de• many), warned the United States, Britain 1 fense of Western Europe. It is a compromise 1 Wu conferred with UN Secretary General and France that the Soviet Union would no~ , Trygve Lie for more than an hour. There plan between the views of the United States tolerate western rearmament. Maybe that, were reports that General Wu had threat and France. statement means what it implies-that Rus• ened to go back to Peiping unless the UN Original positions sia would march if West Germany started took up the Formosa problem immediately. Originally the United States argued that to rearm-and maybe it is a bluff. But in This was the background for yesterday's Europe could be defended only if strong Ger any case that warning, and others like it, ' press conference, which was held in the Se man forces participated. It urged that 10 have had the effect of increasing fear among curity Council chamber at Lake Success. German divisions (a division is a self-con west Europeans-Germans included-of <:3er1 . General Wu read a four-page statement. He tained military unit) be recruited for service man rearmament. Apparently the Russians called the cease-fire proposal a trap; he said in the Atlantic Force under orders of the. hope that fear will bring paralysis of the its real purpose was to tie [our] hands. But Supreme Commander. France shrank from defense effort in the west. The Americans, he said: "We are willing to try to advise the the idea. Her attitude stemmed from her in discussions with the west Europeans, have Chinese volunteers to bring to an early con deep-seated fear of rebirth of German mili put emphasis on the United States stock·, clusion the military operations which they tary power; and an increasing fear that the pile of atomic bombs as a deterrent to Rus• have been forced to undertake together with reappearance of German divisions on the sia, at least as long as the present superiority; the [North] Korean People's Army in their borders of Eastern Europe would provoke the in atomic weapons exists. But the Euro.. resistance against the United States Armed Russians into marching. · Last Wednesday in peans are not so sure. Forces of aggression." London, the pact minister's subordinates put The Peiping delegation is to fly home on the final touches on the compromise plan. Mr. MCKELLAR. Mr. President, per.. TUesday. But despite their departure, ef The plan, in essence, is this. haps I should stop here; but, because I forts to work out some kind of cease-fire will About 150,000 German troops would be re believe our country to be in perhaps continue-if not in the UN, then elsewhere. cruited 11nder Allied supervision. They the greatest danger it has ever expe .. AND NOW EUROPE-TO BUILD WEST'S DEFENSES would be divided not in divisions but in regi rienced, I am going to add a few words. In Brussels, March 17, 1948-three weeks mental combat teams of not more than 6,000 Mr. President, in my judgment, dan after the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia. soldiers each. These teams would .be ;:i.ssim- gerous as our foreign enemies may be, pushed Russia's sphere westward-five West 1lated into divisions of the pact powers. ern European countries signed an alliance. While this process of reeruitment goes on, our greatest danger lies here at home, They were: Great Britain, France, Belgium, France would try to work ~:mt a decision with Our greatest danger lies in the dissen .. the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. The other continental powers on a French project sion and differences that I see constantly paper t hey signed said that. if any treaty for a solution of the German rearmament increaEing. I have rnrved in one or the 1950 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 16689 other of the two Houses of Congress for tions may be or whatever our forgetful M!". CONNALLY. I move that the . a period of nearly 40 years. During that ness may be, the fact remains that we resolution be referred to the Committee long period of time I do not believe I are helping the Russians when we pursue on Foreign Relations. have ever seen the Members of this that course. The VICE PRESIDENT. Does the body and the Members of the other If we are forced into a war Mr. Tru Senator from Arkansas yield for that body, or the people generally, ever man will still be our Commander in purpose? working at such cross purposes. I do Chief during that war. ·whatever critics Mr. FULBRIGHT. With the under not believe I have ever seen them so may say, we in the Senate who have standing that I may get the floor again. critical of one another. I do not believe served in this body with our President The VICE PRESIDENT. Without ob I have ever known our people, both in know that he is honest, we know that he jection, the Senator from Arkansas the Government and out of it, to be is able, we know that he is courageous, yields for that purpose. The question is more critical, nor have I ever seen them and we know that he has the power to on the motion of the Senator from Tex show such utter disregard in many re appoint his executive officers, by and as to refer the resolution to the Com spects for our Constitution and laws. I with the consent of the Senate. mittee on Foreign Relations. do not believe I have ever read in our Let me remind the Senate that every Mr. KEM. Mr. President, I have no history of such a mix-up in world affairs one of these officers, some of whom are disposition .to object to a reference of as exists today. being criticized, was confirmed by our the resolution to the Committee on For Our possessions have been invadec;l, vote. We were for them, as the Presi eign Relations, if there can be some un and· our rights have been violated by dent was. We took part in it, as he did. derstanding that it be reported back to other nations-nations, incidentally, as He has appointed these officers, and we the Senate promptly. Time is of the es all of us know, to which we have been have approved them and have consented sence in the consideration of this reso exceedingly kind, in fact, more than ex to their appointment. Some of them lution, if the session is permitted to ex ceedingly kind, indeed to some of them may not do just what we would have pire with nothing done about the reso we have been more kind than any other them do. Some of them have made mis lution it will be an idle aJ;ld a futile nation ever has been to another. Yet takes. We all make mistakes. ~ut let thing. today we do not really know on which us get together behind our President and The purpose of the resolution is very side any of these nations will be if the behind our Government. Let us build up plain. It is to prevent another Yalta or present troubled developments in the our Army, our Navy, our Marine Corps, another Potsdam, at which were made, world lead to conflict. our Air Corps, and.all our other defenses. on ·behalf of the American people, im All of this should make the citizens of I pray you, my colleagues, do not let it portant agreements that will affect the the United States stay together and be said of us that it was during our serv American people for generations to come. work only for our common country. ice that the United States lost her first Those agreements were not referred to The purpose of this short statement, great conflict. Let us forget politics, the Senate but were consummated by Mr. President, is to urge each and every forget differences, forget everything ex the Executive Department of the Gov- one of my colleagues, each and every cept that our Government and our peo ernment in secret. · American citizen, to stay together in this ple, and even our religion are in danger. The resolution merely asks for a full time of trouble. This is no time for dis Let us be united in the conflict which and complete report of what was done sension; it is no time to permit ourselves apparently is before us. I appeal per at the recent conference between Mr. to become worked up over lesser ques sonally to Senators, who constitute part Attlee and Mr. Truman, and it asks that tions and lesser matters. To my mind, of the greatest legislative body that has any agreements entered into at the con it is our supreme moment; it is our ever existed among men. I fear I have ference should, under the Constitution, greatest test. trespassed upon them, but I thank them be embodied in a treaty which should be · The questions before us are, "Shall the with all my heart for the fine attention submitted to the Senate for ratification greatest Constitution ever written and they h~ve given me. ·or rejection. the greatest government ever devised by CONFZRENCES BETWEEN THE PRESI Mr. President, at the time the resolu man and the freest and most successful DENT AND PRIME MINISTER ATTLEE tion was proposed I suggested to the dis- · and most prosperous people on earth, re Mr. FULBRIGHT. Mr. President, has tinguished Senator from Texas, the main as presently set up; or are we to be the routine business been completed? chairman of the Senate Committee on taken over by Communists who believe The VICE PRESIDENT. If there are Foreign Rela~ions, that there be some neither in God nor in man? I pray to a no further formal or routine matters, understanding that the resolution be re just God that the answer to the last the Senator from Arkansas is recog- ported either favorably or unfavorably question will be no. . nized. The question before the Senate at some definite time. He was not agree As my colleagues know, I am critical is the motion of the Senator from Mis able to that course. I hope he will re at times. I am not excusing myself. I souri to proceed to the consideration of consider and permit the resolution to be do not blame others, including some the resolution • 16690 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE DECEMBER 18 the committee act on it day after Martin O'Mahoney Taft ator from Missouri to the motion of the Maybank Pepper Taylor tomorrow. Millikin Robertson Tbye Senator from Texas EMr. CONNALLY] will I now yield to the Senator from Morse Russell Tydings vote "yea" when their names are called; Missouri. Mundt Saltonstall - Watkins those who oppose the motion will vote Murray Smith, Maine Wherry "nay." The Secretary will call the roll. Mr. KEM. I should like to ask the Neely Smith, N. J . . Wiley Senator if I have failed to make myself Nixon Smith, N. C. Williams The legislative clerk called the roll. clear? The suggestion was that the res O'Conor Stennis Young Mr. LUCAS. I announce that the olution ·be referred to the committee with The VICE PRESIDENT. A quorum is Senator from Connecticut EMr. BENTON] a request, or with a direction, that it be present. and the Senator from Oklahoma EMr. reported on a day certain. I was not THOMAS] are necessarily absent. under the illusion that the chairman of Mr. KEM. Mr. President, I move that The Senator from Virginia EMr. BYRD], the committee could bind the committee · t:tie motion of the Senator from Texas be the Senator from Iowa EMr. GILLETTE], in that respect, but I think the Senate amend~d by adding at the end thereof the Senator from Pennsylvania EMr, can do so. · It can refer the resolution to the following words: MYERS], and the Senator from Utah EMr. the committee with instructions. There That the committee be instructed to report THOMAS] are unavoidably detained on is nothing unusual about that. That was the resolution back to the Senate. not later official business. done in the case of the resolution of the than Thursday, _December 21, 1950. The Senator from Rhode Island EMr. Senator from .Tennessee [Mr. KEFAUVER] The VICE PRESIDENT. The question QREEN] is absent by leave of the Senate a few days ago in regard to subpenaing is on agreeing to the amendment offered on official busi.ness, having been appoint some witnesses to appear before his sub by the Senator from Missouri [Mr. KEM] ed a delegate from the Senate to attend committee. There was general agree to the motion of the Senator from Texas the meeting of the Commonwealth Par ment, as I recall, that the resolution [Mr. CONNALLY]. liamentary Association in Australia. should go to the committee with instruc Mr. KEM. Mr. President, I ask for the The Senator from Minnesota EMr. tions to report within a certain definite yeas and nays. HUMPHREY] is absent because of illness. period. That is all we are asking in this The .yeas and nays were ordered. The Senator from Tennessee EMr. instance, not that the chairman shall The VICE PRESIDENT. Senators KEFAUVER] is absent by leave of the Sen undertake to bind the committee with who favor the amendment offered by the ate on official business. refe.rence to anything, but merely that he Senator from Missouri to the motion of The Senator from Alabama [Mr. agree that the Senate may direct the the Senator from Texas EMr. CONNALLY] SPARKMAN] is absent by leave of the Sen committee to report within a certain will vote "yea" when their names are ate on official business as a representa time. called; those opposed to the amendment tive of the United States to the fifth ses Mr. CONNALLY. Mr. President, evi will vote "nay." · · sion of the General Assembly of the dently I misunderstood the Senator, be Mr. LUCAS. Mr. President, a parlia United Nations. cause he said he had no objection to the mentary inquiry. I announce also that the Senator from resolution being referred to the commit The VICE PRESIDENT. The· Sena Pennsylvania [Mr. MYERS] is paired on tee with the understanding, and so forth. this vote with the Senator from Kansas Whose understanding? tor will state it. Mr. LUCAS. Would the amendment EMr. ScHOEPPEL]. If present and voting, Mr. KEM. The understanding of the offered by the Senator from Missouri re the Senator from Pennsylvania· would Senate. quire the Committee on Foreign Rela vote "nay," and the Senator from Kansas Mr. CONNALLY. There is nothing in tions to report to the Senate by Thurs would vote "yea." the resolution with reference to that. day of thiS week, or Thursday of next I announce further that the Senator So, Mr. President, I insist on my mo week? from West Virginia EMr. KILGORE] is un tion that the resolution be_ref erred to avoidably detained on official business the Committee on Foreign Relations The VICE PRESIDENT. The com- . and if present would vote "nay.'' ' without any handicap, but leaving it to mittee would be required to report to .the Mr. SALTONSTALL. I announce that the fair judgment of the committee just Senate not later than Thursday, Decem the Senator from Washington [Mr. as every other resolution or bill is left. ber 21, 1950. That is this week. CAIN] and the Senator from Michigan Why should we choose this particular Mr. LUCAS. I hope the Senate will EMr. VANDENBERG] are absent by leave of time to violate the rules which give every vote down the amendment. It is a very the Senate. committee the opportunity to consider important ·amendment. The resolution The Senator from Michigan [Mr. FER· any measure which is referred to it? is very impartant. The Committee on GUSON] is absent by leave of the Senate Let the committee consider it. Why Foreign Relations should not be pushed on official business, having been appoint should the Senator from Missouri direct with such rapidity. Probably it would ed as a delegate from the Senate to at what the Committee on Foreign Rela involve some hearings to. dispose of the tend the meeting of the Commonwealth tions should or should not do? resolution. No doubt witnesses would Parliamentary Association in Australia. have to be called from· the State De I insist on my motion to refer the reso The Senator from Ohio EMr. BRICKER], lution to the committee, and I ask for partment. It seems to me it is very short the Senator from Indiana [Mr. CAPE the yeas and nays. notice, and I hope the Senate will vote Ht!RT], the Senator from Vermont [Mr. The VICE PRESIDENT. Has the Sen down the amendment. FLANDERS], and the Senator from Massa ator from Texas concluded? Mr. CONNALLY. Mr. President, I chusetts EMr. LODGE] are necessarily ab Mr. CONNALLY. I suggest the ab very earnestly urge Senators to vote sent. If present and voting, the Senator sence of a quorum. ~gainst the amendment. The Senate is from Vermont EMr. FLANDERS] would The VICE PRESIDENT. The Secre- busy with the tax bill, and we have other vote ''yea." important matters before us. Members tary will call the roll. · The Senator from New Hampshire The legislative clerk called the roll, of the Committee on Foreign Relations are also members of other committees EMr. BRIDGES] is absent on official busi and the following Senators answered to ness, and if present and voting would their names: which require their attendance at hear vote "yea." ings. The resolution is a very important Aiken Frear Kem The . Senator from Kansas EMr. Anderson Fulbright Kerr one. The Senator from Missouri would Brewster George Knowland ScHOEPPELl who is detained on official Butler Gurney Langer give the committee directions not only business is paired on this vote with the Carlson Hayrfen Leahy what it should do but when it should do Senator from Pennsylvania EMr. MYERS]. Chapman Hendrickson Lehman it. The Senator's amendment would Chavez Hickenlooper Long If present and voting, the Senator from Clements Hill Lu... a.s force the committee to report to the Kansas would vote "yea" and the Sen Connally Hoey M...:Carran Senate by December 21,· which will be ator from Pennsylvania would vote Cordon Holland McCarthy Donnell Hunt McClellan next Thursday. I appeal to Senators to "nay." Douglas Ives. McFarland vote down the amendment to the motion. · The Senator from New Hampshire Dworshak Jenner McKellar The VICE PRESIDENT. The yeas [Mr. TOBEY] is detained on official busi Eastland Johnson, Colo. McMahon Ecton Johnson, Tex. Magnuson and nays have been ordered. Those who ness of the Committee on Crime.Investi Ellender Johnston, S. C. Malone favor the amendment offered by the Sen- gation, and if present v:ould vote "yea." • 1950 - CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 16691 ., The result was announced-yeas 30, on official business, having been ap New York Times reported on the front nays 45, as follows: pointed as a delegate from the Senate page as follows: YEAS-30 to attend the meeting of the Common The consensus of comment reported in a Aiken Ives Mundt wealth Parliamentary Association in London dispatch was that the Republican Brewster Jenner Nixon Australia. action had struck a severe blow against the Butler Kem Smith, N. J, The Senatdr from Ohio [Mr. BRICKER], leadership of the United State.s in European Carlson Knowland Taft action for defense. Cordon Langer Thye the Senator from Indiana [Mr. CAPE Donnell McCarthy Watkins HART], .the Senator from Vermont [Mr. As everyone knows, Mr. Acheson was Dworshak Malone Wherry FLANDERS] and the Senator from Mas Ecton Martin Wiley scheduled to leave, and did leave, on Hendrickson Millikin Williams sachusetts [Mr. LoDGE] are necessarily Sunday to attend an extremely impor Hickenlooper Morse Young absent. If present and voting, the Sen tant conferenc'e in Brussels. The pur NAYS-45 ator from Vermont [Mr. FLANDERS] pose of this conference is to coordinate Anderson Holland Magnuson would vote "nay.'' our efforts and plans with those of our· Chapman Hunt Maybank The Senator from New Hampshire allies in the North Atlantic Treaty or Chavez Johnson, Colo. Murray [Mr. BRIDGES] is absent on official busi ganization. Our allies, in fact all free Clements Johnson, Tex. Neely ness, and if present would vote "nay.'' Connally . Johnston, S. C. O'Conor peoples, are looking to this· Nation for Douglas Kerr O'Mahoney The Senator from Nebraska [Mr. leadership in our common struggle Eastland Leahy Pepper · BUTLER] and the Senator from Kansas against the ever-increasing ·pressure of Ellender Lehman Robertson [Mr. SCHOEPPEL] are detained on official Frear Long Russell Russian aggression. · Fulbright Lucas Saltonstall . business. If present and voting, the Critical decisions of far-reaching im George McCarran Smith. Maine Senator from Nebraska and the Senator portance concerning the creation of a Gurney McClellan Smith, N. C. from Kansas would each vote "nay." Hayden McFarland Stennis European defense system, the integra Hill McKellar Taylor The Senator from New Hampshire tion of national military forces, and the Hoey Mc;Mahon Tydings [Mr. TOBEY] is detained on official busi coordination of ec;onomic resources, must NOT VOTING-21 ness of the Committee on Crime Inves be made. This condemnation of the Sec- - Benton Flanders Myers tigation and if present would vote "nay.'' retary of State, our representative at the Bricker Gillette Schoeppel The result was announced-yeas 47, conference, will largely, :i.f not complete Bridges Green Sparkman nays 29, as follows: Byrd Humphrey Thomas, Okla. ly, destroy his inftuence, and consequent Cain . Kefauver Thomas, Utah YEAS-47 ly, our Nation's inftuence at this confer Capehart Kilgore Tobey Anderson Hunt Murray ence. Certainly this action has caused Ferguson Lodge Vandenberg Chapman Johnson, Colo. Myers confusion and uncertainty in the minds Chavez Johnson, Tex. Neely So Mr. KEM's amendment to Mr. CoN Clements Johnston, S. C. O'Conor of our allies. It is a most serious mat NALL Y's motion was rejected. Connally Kerr O'Mahoney ter that at a time like this we find The VICE PRESIDENT. The ques Douglas Leahy P...epper ourselves without an effective way to Eastland Lehman Robertson tion is on agre·eing to the motion of the Ellender Loi.1g Russell counsel with our friends or to use our in Senator from Texas [Mr. CoNNALL Y] to Frear Lucas Saltonstall ftuence in building the united defenses of . refer Senate Resolution 371 to the Com Fulbright McCarran Smith, Maine the free world, iTicluding our own. I can mittee on Foreign Relations. On this George McClellan Smith, N. c. think of no greater tragedy to a great Gurney McFarland Stennis question the yeas and nays have been Hayden - McKellar Taylor nation than to find itself unable to make ordered, and th~ Secretary will call the Hill McMahon Thomas, Utah decisions and to act in the moment of its roll. Hoey Magnuson Tydings greatest danger. The legislative clerk called the roll. Holland Maybank Mr. President, this attack upon Mr. Mr. LUCAS. - I announce that the NAYS-29 Acheson is, of course, not just a personal Senator from Connecticut [Mr. BENTON] Aiken Jenner Nixon matter ·between him and the Republi Brewster Kem Smith, N . J. and the Senator from Oklahoma [Mr. Carlson Knowland Taft cans. It is, in fact, an attack upon the THOMAS] are necessarily absent. Cordon Langer Th ye President and his foreign policy, and· The Senator from Virginia [Mr. BYRD] Donnell McCarthy Watkins will be so interpreted by the world. and the Senator from Iowa- [Mr. GIL Dworshak Malone Wherry Ecton Martin Wiley Everyone knows that the President, un LETTE] are unavoidably detained on offi Hendrickson Millikin Williams der our Constitution, has the primary cial business. Hickenlooper Morse Young The Senator from Rhode Island LMr. Ives Mundt responsibility for our foreign policy. GREEN] is absent by leave of the Senate NOT VOTING-20 Everyone knows that Mr. Acheson is not on official business, having been ap Benton Ferguson Lodge an independent agent, but, on the con pointed a delegate from the Senate to Bricker Flanders Schoeppel trary, that he is but the instrumentality Bridges Gillette Sparkman of the President in carrying into effect attend the meeting of the Common Butler Green Thomas, Okla. wealth Parliamentary Association in Byrd Humphrey Tobey the foreign policy which the President Australia. Cain Kefauver Vandenberg determines. The Senator from Minnesota [Mr. Capehart Kilgore Mr. President, if the Republicans de HUMPHREY] is absent because of illness. So Mr. CONNALLY's motion was agreed sire to change our foreign policy, which The Senator from Tennessee [Mr. KE to, and the resolution (S. ·Res. 371) was I assume they do, l submit that they FAUVER] is absent by leave of the Sena.te referred to the Committee on Foreign have approached their objective in a on official business. Relations. ' misguided and irresponsible manner., The Senator from Alabama [Mr. . REPUBLICAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO OUR unworthy of a great party. Instead of a SPARKMAN] is absent by leave of the Sen SECURITY . ·personal attack upon an individual, let ate on official business as a representa them come forward with a constructive tive of the United States to the fifth Mr. FULBRIGHT. Mr. President, first I should like to pay a tribute to the sen foreign policy program. They have session of the General Assembly of the many persuasive advocates among their United Nations. ior Senator from Tennessee [Mr. McKEL LAR] for the remarks he made a moment members; and if t:t+eir program has sub I announce further that the Senator stance and merit, surely they can rely from West Virginia [Mr. KILGORE] is ago, and I shou~d like to associate my unavoidably detained on official business self with the sentiments he so eloquently upon the membership of this body and and if present would vote "yea." expressed. I was very much impres~ed the people to give their suggestions se Mr. SALTONSTALL. I announce that by the statement made J:;>y the senior rious arid sympathetic consideration. If the Senator from Washington [Mr. Member of this body, and I thi-nk every they can persuade the majority of this CAIN], and the Senator from Michigan one will take his remarks to hearh. body and the people that their substan [Mr. VANDENBERG] are absent by leave Mr. President, on Saturday last, the tive proposals are right, I have no doubt of the Senate. day after the Republicans of this Con the President will modify. his policies The Senator from Michigan [Mr. FER gress formally condemned the Secretary accordingly, just as this body will listen GUSON ] is absent by leave of the Senate of State and demanded his dismissal, the sympathetically to their proposals. This 16692 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE DECEMBER 18 procedure is in accord with our free dem nority party to reflect ~hat, in this dan Many of us on this side of the aisle ocratic traditions, and would, I believe, gercus period, with the majority, as have supported the foreign policy of this receive univei·sal approval. small as it is-and as small as it will be Government in Europe bee use we have On the contrary, Mr. President, the in the next Congress-the admiilistra felt that that policy made sense. It was persistence of the Republicans in pursu tion, as never before needs their sympa to enable the rehabilita~ion of war-torn ing a policy of character assassination thetic support. I am confident that the Europe so that a vacuum would not be as a means of bringing about changes in people of this country will, during the created into which would flow the forces our policies or our Government is an ex next 2 years, recognize and appreciate of international communism. I think tremely dangerous course to fallow. It the contribution to our security that the all Americans, regardless of ·partisan af smacks of Nazi totalitarianism. It is minority may make. Working together, filiation, recognized the fact, after a based upon an appeal to the prejudices I am sure we can prevail against the short time, that economic assistance and emotions of men, rather than to ruthless aggression of Russia. Divided alone would not solve the problem, be• reason. It can, if carried on, cause dis and suspicious of one another, no one cause the Soviet Government and inter ruption among our allies and division can predict what may happen. national communism are determined to among om· own people. Suspfoion and hatred and distrust press for any soft spot. Therefore, Mr. LUCAS. Mr. President, will the have a way of spreading like a plague. when the President of the United States Senator yield for an observation? Once they are aroused, they are not proposed a Greek-Turkish-aid program The PRESIDING OFFICER '< 1950 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-· SENATE 16703 eral of the United States sent -to the ture of Nevada by the passage of a Fed of the United States through the Con Senate- eral act. gress. They want gift loans and free or knowingly to take, receive, possess, or dis QUESTION OF LEGAL GAMBLING NOT BEFORE THE trade so that there will be rio obstacle to pose of any gambling device transported in SENATE bringing in all kinds of products manu violation of this act: Provided, That the pro Mr. President, I would say that the factured by their cheap, low-living visions of this section shall not apply to the standard labor. c ~ urse of unbroken interstate transportation question of whether gambling should be of any gambling device into any State where legalized or not in the State of Nevada or FREE TRADE A WAR ECONOMY---<:AUSE OF FINE the use of such device is legal, as certified in the United States of America is not PEACETIME. ECONOMY by the governor of the State- before the Senate. Apparently no one ..Ne are now in a war economy. The minute the war is over the cheap-labor ! ask the Senators to listen to this por- has had the guts to submit such a bill tion- · for our consideration and face the issue products of· the Furopean and Asiatic clearly. If the Attorney General wants countries will come into the United as certified by the governor of the State to such bill, to make all gambling ff egal, States by the boatload and trainload, the Attorney General of the United States a and published by the Attorney General in the let him introduce it. The Cabinet otn and om boys will be out of work. Federal Register. cers practically introduce bills-they THE 1934 TRADE AGREEMENTS ACT control Congress, apparently. Every Mr. President, that is the provision in This process started in 1934, when we thing they suggest is brought here with passed the 1934 Trade Agreements Act. the bill which was sent to the Senate by out any proper consideration of its ulti the United States Attorney General. He mate e.fiect. Let the Attorney General Here, Mr. President, is an example of never to my knowledge wrote any other introduce a bill prohibiting all gambling. the thoughtlessness of the Congress. The pending measure is not quite as bill or made any other suggestion in that LET THE CONGRESs DEBATE GAMBLING ON ITS respect. I read further: MF.rITS serious-it does not a.tiect as many peo In the absence of such certification and ple as does the 1934 Trade Agreements Then let the Congress of the United Act. publication, the use of gambling devices in States debate the bill on its merits. Let any State shall, for the purposes of this act, CONGRESS ABROGATED ITS ltESPONSIBll.ITY be presumed to be illegal; and all persons us not come in through the back door and officials affe day, September 15, -1950, intended to win ALABAMA TEXAS the Germans to our side in the coming James H. Wilbanks, Fyffe, Ala., in place of Arlan T. Carroll, Crane, Tex., in place of conflict sounded as though it had been :J. E. Johnson, retired. J. T. Butler, resigned. written and issued by the Kremlin, · Festus T. Bryan, Glenwood, Ala., in place Clarence R. Wiley, Fort Stockton, Tex., in rather than by Washington. It cer of P. B. Curtis, retired. place of A. W. Dunn, deceased. James E. Nettles~ Jr., Repton, Ala., in place Roland A : Johnson, McCamey, Tex., in tainly did not help win to our side place of R. S. Guyton, resigned. .fighters in the coming conflict. of M. A. Straughn, transferred . Stephen H .. Greene, Troy, Ala., in place of UTAH Mr.· President, I wish to take up the J. F. Harmon, transferred. question of denazification, the subject Franklin G. Slaugh, Vernal, Utah, in place upon which .the Senator from Nevada CALIFORNIA of Ponth.a Calder, retired . . . [Mr; McCARRAN] was interrogating me. Everett M. Fisher, Rio Linda, Calif., in ViRGINIA ·place of M. M. Wilson, retired. Charles F. Shuler, Elkton, Va., in place of I am sorry that he has left the Chamber William D. Thornton, Watsonville, C'alif., as I go into more detail. . J. H. Miller, retired. .in place of Harry Bridgewater, retired. Howard S. Myers, Virginia Beach, Va., in Mr. President, among the policies CONNECTICUT place of W. R . M. Moss, deceased. which have damaged the interests of the Jerry C. Cotrone, Old Greenwich, Conn., in · Samuel H. Hale, Wise, Va., in place of J.M. .United States, the denazification pro place of T. J. Maher, deceased. Roberson, transferred. gram is in my opinion the worst. In Michael L. White, South Woodstock, Conn. WEST YIRGINIA stead of limiting denazification to the .Office became Presidential July 1, 1947. Elizabeth D. Burch, Smithers, W. Va., in . active and· evil participants and benefi FLORIDA ciaries of the Nazi movement, we indis place of R. C. Bell, declined. ·John ~enneth Rogers, Naples, Fla., in place WISCONSIN criminately penalize every· German, of C. W. Stewart, retired. whether his membership was active or . Lucius A., Bryant, .Jr., Orlando, Fla., in Harry J. Kelley, Manitowoc, Wis., in place merely nominal. place of J. D. Begg·;, deceased. of H.F. Kelley, retired. Mr. President, it is now after 5 o'clock. GEORGIA Gordon E. Schuler, Plymouth,· Wis., in I very much dislike· to discuss this very Dorothy K. Moxley, Wadley, Ga., in place of place of A. W. Schiereck; retire~. ' important subject of denazification with .F. H. Moxley, ,deceased. " so few Senators present. My speech on ILLINOIS that subject will no~ be long. Let me ·ask Armanda R. Napoli, Steger, Ill., in place of the acting majority leader· if it is the I. C. Cinnamon, removed . HOUS~ OF ~P~SENTATIVES . plan to take a recess at about 5 o'clock. I should .like to resume my speech when lNDIANA MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1950 ·more Members of the Senate are present. Clyde V. Wolfbrd, Newberry, Ind. Office . Mr. JOHNSON of Colorado. Does the · became Presidential July · 1, 1944. The House met at 12 oclock noon. . Senatoi: wish to place it in the RECORD? IOWA The Chs.plain, Rev. Bernard Bras.: Mr. LANGER. No; I wish to deliver · · Leo, J. Miller, Denison, Iowa, in place of kamp, D. i..'., offered the following . it on the floor of the Senate. . H. C. Finnern, retired . prayer: Mr. President, I ask unanimous con Robert E. Allmon, Missouri Valiey, Iowa, Almighty God, in this time of national .sent that, after the dispositi.:>n of the in place of E.· D. Bradley, transferred . · emergency, life for all of us is taking on ·pending business, which is the confer MICHIGAN . ·a new seriousness and .a deeper earnest ence report, I may retain· the floor to Leon D. Wa~laker, Arcadia, Mich., in P.lace ness for we are confronted by dangers morrow when the Senate meets at 12 ·of F. H. Smith, Jr., resigned. · .which threaten to destroy our liberties . o'clock. .MINNESOTA We are beginning . to realize that we The PRESIDING OFFICER. . Unani : ·Ruth G. Mueller, Ga~lord, Minn., in place are citizens of this great Nation, not mous consent is requested by the senior . of T. W. Comnick, deceased. merely to receive benefits and enjoy the ·Senator from North Dakota that he be Cormac A. Suel, Shakipee, Minn., in place blessings of fteedom without hindrance permitted to retain the floor · when the . of H. c. Mertz, deceased. but we must now def end and preserve Senate convenes tomorrow. MISS;SSIPPI them at any cost. Mr. JOHNSON of Colorado. That is, Mary Bell Smith, Midnight, Miss., in place . Grant that we may be loyal to the ·after the conference report is disposed of L. W. Smith, retired. memory and tradition of our forefathers ·of tomorrow. · Jimmy Griffith, Sunflower, Miss., in place who cherished lofty ideals and whose Mr. LANGER. Yes. of B. M. Sledge, retired. spirit of sternness and simplicity, of' The PRESIDING OFFICER. The re NEBRASKA struggle and sacrifice, of faith and hope, quest of the Senator from North Dakota Dean J. Ehle, Ponca, Nebr., in the place of ishone brightly even in the darkest days. is that on Tuesday, after the disposition J, A. Gunn, removed. We know that if we are derelict in our ·of the conference report, which is now NEW JERSEY devotion or yield to despair we shall be before the Senate, he be recognized. Is Charles D. Tingley, Washington, N. J., in traitors to the faithful of all ages, there objection? The Chair hears none, .place of F. A. Robertson, deceased. trai~ors to our fellow citizens, · who are ·and it is so ordered. NEW YORK now fighting so valiantly, and tra'itors . RECESS Harold C. Epke, Holley, N. Y., in place of to our God. . Mr. JOHNSON of ·Colorado. I move George Heal, retired. We pray that we may tak'.e more seri that the Senate take a recess until 12 Hannah M. · Curtis, Morrisville, N. Y., in ously the matter of our personal loyalty o'clock noon tomorrow. place of W. J. Holbert, deceased. to Thee, walking in the ways of right The motion was agreed to; and (at 5 William J. Cromie, Palmer, N. Y., in place eousness and holding fast the faith that . o'clock and 16 minutes p. m.) the Senate of A. W. Cohan, deceased . Thy divine purpose cannot be defeated. Gerald W. Churchill, Walden, N. Y., in Hear us in the name of our blessed took a recess until tomorrow, Tuesday, plac_e of Fred· Bu rns, retired. December 19, 1950, at 12 o'clock me- Lord. Amen. ' NORTH CAROLINA ridian. · The Jou~nal of the proceedings of Emmett Robinson Wooten, Kinston, N. C., Friday, December 15, 1950, was read and NOMINATIONS 'in place of S. C. Sitterson, deceased. approved. PENNSYLVANIA Executive nominations received by the · MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE Senate December 18 (legislative cfay of William L. Bedsworth, Belle Vernon, Pa., November 27); 1950: in plac'e of George Lange, retired, A message from the Senate, by Mr. William Lester Davis,· Peach Glen, Pa. Woodruff, its·enrolling clerk, announced DIRECTOR OF DEFENSE MOBILIZATION Office became Presidential July l, 1948. that the Senate had passed without Charles E. Wilson, of New York, to be Di Joseph F. Sullivan, West Chester, Pa., in amendment bills of the House of the rector of Defense Mobilization. place of G. J. Moses, retired. following titles: POSTMASTERS SOUTH DAKOTA . H. R. 2093. An act authorizing the Secre The following-named persons to be post Marion E. Peterson, Arlington, S. Dak., in tary of Agriculture to execute a quitclaim masters: place of F. C. Wetterberg, retired. deed to property owned by Jacob F. Riedel; XCVI--1052 16714 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-·· HOUSE DECEMBER lS H. R. 4579. An act to amend section 333 of S. 735. An act for the relief of Leslie A. PRAYER AND SUPPLICATION FOR PEACE title 28 of the United States Code to provide Connell; AND DIVINE GUIDANCE for the attendance at judicial conferences of S. 1113. An act to provide for the appoint their respective circuits of the district judges ment of conservators to conserve the assets Mr. ROGERS of Florida. Mr. Speak in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Canal of persons of advanced age, mental weak er, I ask unanimous consent to address Zone, Hawaii, and Alaska; ness, not amounting to unsoundness of the House for 1 minute. H. R. 6228. An act for the ·relief of Dr. mind, or physical incapacity; The SPEAKER. ~ Is t11ere objection to Chao-Jen Chen, Dr. Janet Wang Chen, and S. 2460. An a.ct for the relief of George 0. the request of the gentleman from Flor Eleanor Chen; Drucker, t,.ivia Drucker, and their minor H. R. 7735. An act to authorize the Secre daughter, Gloria Elizabeth Drucker; ida? tary of the Army to grant to the .Southern S. 2830. An act for the relief of E. C, There was no objection. . California Edison Co. an ·easement and right Browder and Charles Keylon; Mr. ROGERS of Florida. Mr. Speak- . of-way for electric transmission line purposes s. 2888. An act for the relief of Frances er, our Christmas joy is shadowed by a in the Santa Fe Flood Control Basin and the Ethel Beddington; solemn sense of gloom, urgency, and San Gabriel River Improvement, Calif.; s. 2921. An act for the relief of Stavros S .• emergency. Our Nation has girded it H. R. 8821. An act authorizing payment to . Niarchos; self for action to meet a situation threat certain States amounts withheld from graz S. 3044. An act for the relief of Bernice ening its very existence. ing fees on public lands; Josephine Lazaga; H. R. 8834. An act for the relief of Yama s. 3125. An act for the relief of Dr. Lutfu We are all at war, let us make no mis guchi Michiko; Lahut Uzman; take about that-at war with the most H. R. 8851. An act to authorize the Secre S. 3241. An act1 for the relief of George ruthless and diabolical power which has· try of the Treasury to transfer by quitclaim Brander Paloheimo and Eva Lenora Palo ever cowed the good earth and whose deed to the Browns Point Improvement Club · heimo; purpose of world domination has been a portion of a small strip of land at Coast s. '.:! 259. An· act for the relief of Ethelyn evident now for a long time. This power Guard light station facility, Browns Point, Isobel Chenalloy; is acting without conscience and guided Pierce County, Wash., and to transfer by S. 320(). An act for the relief of Richard by a Godless ideology and is threaten quitclaim deed the remaining portion of H. Bush; . such t;trip to the county of Pierce, State of S. 3261. An act for the relief of Willard ing to the very survival of our cherished Washington; Sidmer Ruttan; institutions. H. R. 9284. An act to amend the act en S. 3378. An act for the relief of Armando America is the one and only hope of titled "An act to establish a uniform sys Santini; the world. Without us all free peoples tem of bankruptcy throughout the United S. 3513. An act for the relief of James would be crushed; ours is an awesome States," approved July 1, 1898, and acts SheUenberger, Jr., a minor; responsibility. In spite of our dire dan amendatory thereof and supplementary S. 3554. An act for the relief of Jose Man zano Somera; ger this is no time for panic anq defeat thereto; ism. If our Nation throws her all in ~ H. R. 9475. An act for the relief of Mrs. S. 3682. An act, to amend the Civil Service Enid Louise Noble Romick, Jr.; and · Retirement Act of May 29, 1930, as amended, this global test she is invincible. H. R. 9681. An act to ·authorize the waiver . with respect to .the time of taking effect of Business as usual has been sidetracked of the navigation and vessel-inspection laws. annuities of Members and· elected officers of and the material resources of this Na the Senate and. House of Representatives; tion have been mobilized to meet ·this The message also announced that the S. 3699. An act for the relief of Linda Leo; destructive threat. The fate of the world Senate had passed, with amendments in S. 3725. An act for the relief of James Mc Gillic and Blossom McGillic; will be settled by America. which the concurrence of the House is· While we are mobilizing our material requested, bills of the House of the f al S. 3897. An act for the relief of Edwin A. Knous; resources in this hour of danger, we are lowing titles: S. 4069. An act for the relief of Edulji Din deeply conscious of the fact that the H. R. 2733. An act to authorize the con- shaw and his sister, Mrs. Bachoo Dinsha moral and spiritual resources of our peo struction, operation, and maintenance by Woronzow; ple constitute the Nation's great bulwark the Secretary of the Interior of the Cana- . s. 4110. An act for the relief of Howard dian River reclamation project, Texas; Lovell; in times of national crisis and that the H. R. 5051. An act for the relief of Mrs. S. 4133. An act for the relief of Dr. Fer- churches of the Nation of all creeds and Juan Antonio Rivera, Mro. Raul Valle An· · nand Van Den Branden; faiths are the instruments through telo, Mrs. Jorge Diaz Romero, Mrs. Otto S. 4229. An act to extend to certain per- which our moral and spiritual resources Resse, and Mrs. Hugo Soria; sons who served in the military, naval, or can best be marshaled and given H. R. 5487. ·An act to provide for the re.:. air service on or after June 27, J.:950, the strength. Our greatest weapon is spir..: view of orders of the Federal Communica- . benefits of Public Law No'. 16, Seventy- itual. ·America rests on spiritual ver tions Commission under the Communica- eighth Congress, as amended; ities. The spiritual forces of our Nation ·tions Act of 1934, as amended, and of certain S. 4235. An act to authorize the transfer orders of the Secretary of Agriculture made to the Vermont Agricultural- College of cer must be mobilized for this crisis. under the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, t ain lands in Addison · County, Vt., for agri· I, therefore, introduced in the House as amended, and the Perishable Agricultural cultural purposes; on Friday House Resolution 886, calling Commodities Act, 1930, as amended, and of S. 4240. An act to amend the act incorpo upon the churches of the Nation of all orders of the United States Maritime Com- rating the American Legion so as to redefine creeds, beliefs, and faiths to observe, set mission or the Federal Maritime Board under I eligib.i."ity' for membership therein; aside, and dedic3.te Sunday, December the ShJpping Act, 1916, as amended, and the S. 4241. An act to am:end the act incorpo- 24, as a time for prayer and supplica Intercoastal Shipping Act, 1933, as amended; rating the American Legion so as to redefine tion for peace and for divine guidance H. R. 6242. An act to prevent the entry of ) (a) the powers of sa1'1 corporation, (b) the certain giant· snails into the United States; right to the use of the name "The American to the nien and women, elected and ap H. R. 8759. An act for the relief of Rev. Legion" and '"American Legion"; pointed, civilian and military, on whose Andrew Chai Kyung Whang; · S. 4254. An act to redefine eligibility for shoulders rests tt.e responsibility for H R. 8973. An act for the relief of Archi· membership in AMVETS (American Veter- leadership in this time of great crisis, and bald Walter Campbell Seymour; ans of World War II); and for strength and unity to enable our H. R. 9145. An act for the relief of Tomoko S. Con. Res. 108. Concurrent resolution people to persevere, with other freedom Yamaya; favor~ng the ~uspension of deportation of loving people, in bringing about a !~t H. R. 9236. An act for the relief of H. certain alie·ns. ing and permanent peace in the world. Halpern & Bro., Inc., of Boston, Mass.; and The message also announced that the THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS H. R. 9272. An act to amend- the act of Senate agrees to the report of the com October 5, 1949 (Public Law 322, 81st Cong.), ARE PATRIOTIC so as to extend the time of permits covering mittee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amend Mr. O'HARA of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, lands located on the Agua Caliente Indian I ask unanimous consent to address the Reservation. ments of the Senate to the bill
SENATE DECEMBER 18 Mr
